Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by Chris Dorland.

Chris Dorland is a Canadian/American artist living and working in New York. Dorland’s work is a dystopian vision of the human-built world filtered through the sublimated violence of abstraction, consumerism and technology. Working with a variety of screens, scanners and drones, Dorland is interested in the ways in which machines increasingly perceive, record and reproduce the world through data visualisation, scanning hardware and other optical devices. Dorland moves between the scanning devices, screens and printers, allowing the various machines to document, distort and produce new images of the world which he then transforms into the language of painting.

Dorland’s work is part of the collections of Whitney Museum of American Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, The Dennos Center Museum, Microsoft, Dawson College, Neuberger Museum, The Juilliard School of Art, The Langham, Chicago IL, The Sigg Art Foundation, SZ. Past exhibitions include the Front International, Cleveland Triennal for Contemporary Art ; Museum of Contemporary Digital Art (MOCDA); Super Dakota, Brussels ; Annka Kultys Gallery, London ; Lyles & King, New York ; Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles.

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and critics presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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